The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing into law, the Nigerian Centre For Disease Control and Prevention (establishment) act, 2018.Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (senate), announced the signing of the bill in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday.The act was signed alongside four others—the Federal [...]

Ademola Adesuyi, vice governor of District 404 B2 Lions club, Nigeria, says the club is planning to treat 50 million visually impaired people in Nigeria between 2018 and 2019.Adesuyi said this while hosting Gudrun Yugvandottir, international president of the Lions club, in Abuja on Friday."In Abuja, we are just building the facilities to treat eye problems with corneal transplant our [...]

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says more Nigerians have access to mobile phones than those with access to toilets.Zaid Jurji, chief of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF, said this on Monday, while speaking at a workshop on European Union Niger Delta water project, in Rivers state.He said while 140 million Nigerians have mobile phones, only 97million [...]

"We are usually three during the child delivery, I and two other midwives. One person will be holding the torch for us while one will be conducting the delivery with the third person assisting,” said Odeh Agnes, the midwife at Dafa primary healthcare centre (PHC) in Kwali council, federal capital territory (FCT).The thought of childbirth with the aid of torchlight [...]

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has advocated a compulsory health insurance scheme for all Nigerians.He said this will enable citizens have access to quality and affordable healthcare services.Osinbajo said this on Wednesday at the ‘Civic Innovation Lab launch-pad for social innovators’ event held in Abuja.He said although the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is useful, it is unable to pull resources together to [...]

The Kano state government has raised the alarm over a strange disease that killed eight persons in Kurimawa village in Dawakin Tofa local government area of the state.Ismail Gwammaja, public relations officer of the ministry of health disclosed this on Tuesday.He said the government had drafted an emergency response team, consisting doctors, pharmacists and other health workers to unravel the cause [...]

A new research says a gene mutation among ancient West Africans caused the sickle cell anemia to be passed down to their descendants.The research work titled “Whole-genome-sequence-based haplotypes reveal single origin of the sickle allele during the holocene wet phase,” said the disease began with a single ancestor who developed the mutation which initially helped to fend off malaria, but unfortunately [...]

Isaac Adewole, minister of health, says consumption taxes on products like alcohol and tobacco should be increased and used for the funding of healthcare.In February, TheCable reported that Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, had written to President Muhammadu Buhari seeking permission to increase tariff on alcohol and cigarettes.Speaking on Tuesday at THISDAY healthcare financing policy dialogue in Abuja, Adewole said Nigeria [...]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 72 people have died of Lassa fever since January 1, 2018.The development is contained in the centre’s situation report on the virus.According to the report, dated February 25, 1,081 suspected cases were reported in 18 states.The states are Edo, Ondo, Bauchi, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Anambra, Benue, Kogi, Imo, Plateau, Lagos, Taraba, Delta, Osun, [...]

BY LANRE TEJUOSOIn 2015, I was elected a senator by the good people of Ogun central senatorial district. As a medical doctor with years of medical experience, the president of the senate His Excellency Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON, and my distinguished colleagues counted me worthy to chair the senate committee on health.Being a medical doctor himself, the senate president [...]

Health is a very sensitive issue to address in this clime; it is a matter of nobody wants to die, but everyone wants to go to heaven. Nobody wants to confront the really tough issues facing quality and affordable healthcare in Nigeria, yet everyone wants quality and affordable healthcare in the country.For decades, we have seen our one percenters, AKA [...]

The Redbridge Healthcare Group has advocated for stable and all-inclusive healthcare benefits for employees in the country.The group made the call ahead of its maiden employees medical benefits conference scheduled for Abuja on Thursday.Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, Henri Onyemachi, chief executive officer of the group, said the essence of the conference is to draw attention to the need [...]

When Ibrahim Yusuf left behind his family members and childhood friends in Niger state in 2016, he felt Abuja was a city "flowing with milk and honey". After an endless search, he settled in Karu, a suburb in Nyanya.“To be sincere, it has not been easy. Although I was able to learn a trade -- I am now a tailor -- [...]

The federal government has started the process of enforcing “no work, no pay” rule, seeking means to ensure any worker who goes on strike will lose his or her pay for the period of the strike.Chris Ngige, minister of labour, disclosed this to state house correspondents at the end of the weekly meeting of the federal executive council.He said the [...]

The federal government has not been able to reach an agreement with striking health workers in the country.On Tuesday, Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment, and Isaac Adewole, health minister, met with the leadership of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), but the meeting ended in deadlock.Ngige criticised the health workers for "not following the provisions" of existing labour laws, [...]